Senior Demand Planner

Job description / Role

Position Title: Sr. Demand Planner
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: up to 15K AED depending on experience and qualifications
Benefits: airline ticket and employee discounts on luxury merchandise
Job Location: Dubai, UAE

About the Client:
A UAE-based enterprise with 20 years of expertise, seamlessly blending retail and distribution, investments, and real estate, and driven by sustainable expansion through deep market knowledge and hands-on leadership.

Job Description:
- Develop seasonal merchandise plans and assortment strategies for each brand, considering sales trends, historical data, and market insights. Develops a sales budget as a planning tool to forecast the quantity of products, company is expected to sell and the corresponding revenues that can be generated from such sales. Coordinates with Finance, brand teams to finalize the budgets.
- Responsible for open-to-buy (OTB) planning that will help the company to determine how much inventory can be appropriate to buy within a specific period.
- Develop product assortment plans by category, SKU, and location, ensuring alignment with brand strategies and customer preferences. Allocate merchandise to stores based on sales forecasts, store profiles, and inventory availability, maximizing sales potential and minimizing stockouts.
- Analyze promotional performance and ROI, making recommendations for future promotional activities and pricing adjustments. Ensures that store visits are conducted regularly to capture real time data and assess situations at various stores.

- Open to Asian and Arabic nationalities, 40 years old and below.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Merchandising, Retail Management, or related field; MBA or relevant certifications preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of UAE experience in retail industry, specifically from fashion/lifestyle retail.
- Proven experience in planning and forecasting is an advantage

Salary:
AED 14,000 to 15,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.

About the Company

RTC-1 Employment Services is a licensed recruitment firm based in Dubai, UAE. Our team has been in the market since 2004 and we are supporting various industries with their staffing needs across the Middle East and Africa.